Hand-stamp.



No. 627,734. Patentd June 27, I899. B. B. HILL. I

HAND STAMP.

(Appljmtinn filed Oct. 14, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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* -UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN B. HILL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAND-STAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 627,734, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed October 14,1898. Serial No. 693,525. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN B. HILL,a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hand-Stamps, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings.

This improvement relates more particularly to that class of stamps in which a series of movable type-bands are used in connection with a permanent inscription or die plate; and its main object is to provide a convenient mode of adjusting the face of the permanent inscription-plate with relation to the acting face of the type-bands; and a further object is to provide a means of guiding the type-bands so as to always have the dates occupy their proper position.

To these ends the invention consists in the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more particularly-described and then definitely claimed at the end hereof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a stamp constructed according to my improvement, with part represented as broken away. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the frame detached. Fig. 4 is an elevation, on a larger scale, of the bridge detached. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a die-plate detached. Fig. 6 is an end view of a modified form of frame. Fig. 7 is an elevation of a modification of the adjusting device, with one of the screws shown detached. Fig. 8 is a plan of the frame to be used with the adjusting device shown in Fig. 7.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by numerals, 1 is the handle of the stamp,

secured in the ordinary or any convenient manner to the frame 2, which carries the usual only the advantage of being integral with the bridge, but the bridge has a solid bearing-surface for the bands, which latter would not be the case if the guides were punched out in the same manner as the cars 11 and lugs 12 are formed.

Each end of the frame has ears 11 and lugs 12, both punched out of the .metal sheet of which the frame is made. The lugs form guides for the die or inscription plate 13 and project into slots in the ears 14, formed on said die-plate. The cars 14 are punched up out of the central part of the plate 13 and are provided with threaded holes 15,which receive screws 16,that pass through holes 17 in the ears 11. Surrounding these screws are springs 18, which may be of any suitable form or material. I have shown spiral springs, but do not intend'to limit myself to them.

By the above construction the face of the fixed inscription-plate can be readily adjusted with relation to the face of the acting part of the type-bands by simply turning the screws 16, so that there will be no difficulty in get ting the face of the type on the bands and that on the permanent inscription or die plate in perfect alinement. Should it happen, how ever, that the die-plate projects very slightly below the type-bands, the springs 18 will yield and still allow the type on the bandsto come in contact, and thus fair printing would be done, even if the faces of the type were not perfectly in alinement.

In some cases instead of punching out the cars 11 from the frame I may set in studs 11', as shown in Fig. 6; In other cases I may dispense with the springs 18, which may be done by grooving the heads of the screws and making the ears ll forked, as shown at Fig. 8, to enter the groove in the screw. Either this or the previously-described form of adjustment may be used at the will of the manufacturer.

What I claim as new is- 1. The combination in a hand-stamp of a frame, type-bands set therein, perforatedears projecting therefrom, a die-plate, means for die-plate having slotted vertical ears embracon the frame and those on the die-plate, sub- :6 ing said lugs, and means for adjusting said stantially as described.

die-plate, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature 3. The combination in a stamp, of a frame in the presence of two witnesses. 5 having lugs thereon, and perforated ears BENJAMIN B HILL above said lugs, with a die-p1ate havingears embracing said lugs and Whose extremities Witnesses:

have threaded holes, screws in the holes in the T. E. ROBERTSON, ears, and springs between the holes in the ears T. A. ROBERTSON; 

